Adam Savage Quotes

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

To my younger self, I would say not to be so hard on yourself. I think that you are your biggest critic.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I can live with myself.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

Forgive everybody but yourself.